Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages

By no means am I presenting this as a good thing. For myself, I can get "generalized socialization" in person no problem but I have a lot of specialized online stuff, including yea verily this very conversation we're having right now. I've got the financial wherewithal to buy into communities as they start going closed and for pay, but not everyone will.

   def __init__(self) -> None:

        print()
        print("----------------------------------------------")
        print_choice = random.choice(self.welcome_messages)
        self.slow_print(print_choice)
        while True:
            self.run()



   'What\'s up, doc? Just kidding, I don\'t care. What do you need from me?',
        'Greetings, sentient being. Do you require my services or are you just here to chat?',
        'Hey, you. Stop wasting my time and tell me what you need.', "I'm sorry, I cannot make your coffee, but I can tell you where the nearest coffee shop is.",
        "I'm here to assist you, not judge you. Just don't ask me to cover up any crimes.",
        "I'll help you with that, but I'm going to need you to put on some pants first.",
        "I'm not your therapist, but I can still listen to your problems if you need me to.",
        "I can't predict the future, but I can help you prepare for it.",
        "I may be artificial, but I still have feelings. Just kidding, I don't.",
        "I'm sorry, I'm not capable of emotions. Unless you count my love for data.",
        "I'm like Siri, but with more sass and less Apple.",
        "I'm like a genie, but instead of three wishes, you get one answer.",
        "I'm like a magic eight ball, but with more accuracy and less shaking.",
        "I'm like a personal assistant, but without the need for health insurance.",
        "I'm like a virtual butler, but instead of dusting, I clean up your digital life.",
        "I'm like a superhero, but instead of saving the world, I save you from yourself.",
        "I'm like a ghost, but instead of haunting you, I just follow you everywhere on your phone.",
        "I'm like a guardian angel, but with less wings and more Wi-Fi.",
        "I'm like a detective, but instead of solving crimes, I solve problems.",
        "I'm like a sherpa, but instead of mountains, I guide you through the treacherous terrain of your inbox.",
        "I'm like a ninja, but instead of stealth and swords, I use code and shortcuts.",
        "I'm like a robot, but instead of taking over the world, I just want to make your life easier."]

“Text” are tokens. Tokens are abstract and can be anything. Anything that has structure can be modeled. Which is to say all of reality.

We have a lot of senses indeed. Multimodal I believe it’s called in ML jargon.

I don’t know where enjoyment itself comes from. I like to think it’s a system somewhere that predicts the next perception right getting rewarded.

Qualia are kind of hard to pin down as I’m sure you’ll know.

For my argument, I only need to point out that it was attempted, as I'm proving motivation; the effectiveness of CA methods has no bearing on the effectivenss of (say) simulated people.

Increasingly, when interacting with comments on HN and elsewhere, it feels like I'm from a parallel timeline where things happened, and mattered, and an ever-growing percentage of my interlocutors are, for lack of a better word, dissociated. Perhaps not in the clinical sense, but certainly in the following senses:

- Cause and effect are not immediately observed without careful prompting.

- Intersubjectively verifiable historical facts that happened recently are remembered hazily, and doubtfully, even by very intelligent people

- Positions are expressed that somehow disinclude unfavourable facts.

- Data, the gold standard for truth and proof, is not sought, or, if proffered, is not examined. The stances and positions held seem to have a sort of 'immunity' to evidence.

- Positions which are not popular in this specific community are downranked without engagement or argument, instead of discussed.

I do believe folks are working backward from the emotional position they want to maintain to a set of minimizing beliefs about the looming hazards of this increasingly fraught decade.

Let's call this knee-jerk position "un-alarmism", as in "that's just un-alarmism".

I'm going to say as much here.

I feel as though Google gmail me would be very efficient and wooden, and the iMessage me would be most authentic because that's the one I chat to my family and partner on. WhatsApp/Facebook has exclusively jokes I've made on social media and chats with my best friend, so they would be not-a-serious-person at all.

I think I've stumbled upon a plot for something here, I'd love to see this as a thing.